Fifteen soldiers died sunday in a terrorist attack on a pro-regime army bus in Syria’s central desert, said a war watcher, as the state media refers to a “terrorist attack.”
Despite the fall of The “caliphate” of Daesh in 2019, the group keep going deadly attacks from hiding places in the Syrian desert, which extends from the outskirts of the capital Damascus to the Iraqi border.
Daesh cells “attacked a military bus” in the desert of Palmyra, “killing 15 soldiers and injuring 18 others,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for says human rights.
State news the SANA agency had reported 13 dead “including officers” and 18 wounded in a terrorist attack” on a military bus on Sunday afternoon.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources across the country, said the death the toll could rise like most of the soldiers were “seriously injured”.
Daesh did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.
Sunday’s violence came after three regimes soldiers died Friday is of Palmyra when the vehicle they were traveling in came under attack the Observatory added.
So far this year 61 pro-regime soldiers and Iran-affiliated militiamen had been killed in Daesh attacks in the desert of Syria, he said.
On half a million people were killed and millions displaced since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, after nationwide protests against the government were met with brutal repression.
It degenerated into a devastating war that drew in regional and international powers.
Daesh leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi blew himself up up in in early February during a raid by American forces on his house in northwest Syria region of Idlib, Syria last major opposition stronghold.
Qurashi had taken over with Daesh weakened by the years of assaults by US-backed local forces and the loss of son self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Syria and northern Iraq.
the majestic ancient city of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site, has become the theater of public executions, where Daesh also soufflé up ancient monuments and plundered other treasures.
Earlier in January, nine Assad regime soldiers and allied fighters were killed in a attack on a military convoy in eastern Syria, while in November last yearthe Observatory said another is from Syria attack left a general and four soldiers dead.
Two bombs planted on an army bus in the center of Damascus killed 14 people people in October last yearreported SANA.
It was the deadliest attack in the capital since an attack claimed by Daesh targeted the Palace of justice in march 2017, killing at least 30 people.
